News: Zaimudaijin Ninatte Yosan o Tsukurou! ~ Yosan Sakusei Game ~

Japan is having a hard time with their national budget, as the country faces a debt of over 538,000 billion yen. The japanese ministry of finance chose an original media to inform the population about this issue (and to show them that each possible answer would bring its own share of new complications) with the early july launch of a free game on their webpage, Zaimudaijin Ninatte Yosan o Tsukurou! ~ Yosan Sakusei Game ~ (which roughly translates as “Let’s pretend we’re the minister of finance and work on the budget! ~ The budget making game ~”). The game, which is already the most popular section of their website, almost always ends up with a report telling you the national debt issue will go on for another generation. Saving Japan suddenly becomes slightly less sexy than in the days of Godzilla and Ultraman.